Post Magazine - July/August 2025

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July/August 2025

July/August 2025

In This Issue:

Summer Movies!

Superman: Weta FX and Framestore combine for over 1,000 VFX

By Marc Loftus

The Naked Gun: Director Akiva Schaffer balances in-camera & digital VFX

By Marc Loftus

F1 The Movie: Editor Stephen Mirrione continues collaboration with director Joe Kosinski

By Marc Loftus

Smurfs: Picture Shop's Mitch Paulson finds the perfect 'blue'

By Marc Loftus

I Know What You Did Last Summer

By Marc Loftus

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Inside Digital Domain's VFX work on nearly 400 shots

Freakier Friday

Light Iron colorist Corinne Bogdanowicz creates a throwback look for this Disney sequel

Director's Chair: Tow

Stephanie Laing overcomes a challenging shoot to tell a story about tenacity

By Iain Blair

Filmmaking: The Roses

Jay Roach helps Searchlight Pictures reimagine a classic dark comedy

By Marc Loftus

Director's Chair: Preparation for the Next Life

Bing Liu creates a hopeful film about a young immigrant who's looking for meaning in life

By Iain Blair

Departments

The Roses: Director Jay Roach reimagines this classic black comedy
Searchlight Pictures’ The Roses is a reimagining of 1989’s The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler. The new film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as two professionals — Th ...

August 18, 2025

Features

Smurfs: Picture Shop colorist Mitch Paulson finds the perfect 'blue'
Paramount Pictures’ Smurfs is an animated feature driven by the voice talents of several well-known performers, including John Goodman, Rihanna, James Corden, Nick Offerman, Daniel Levy, Sandra Oh, Oc ...

August 8, 2025
Superman: Weta FX & Framestore create more than 1,000 VFX
Superman, from Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Studios, delivers a character who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind. James Gunn directed the feature, which finds t ...

August 8, 2025
The Naked Gun: Director Akiva Schaffer balances in-camera & digital VFX
In Paramount Pictures’ The Naked Gun, Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) tries to live up to his father’s legacy by leading Los Angeles’ Police Squad, which is at risk of being shut down. Pamela Anderson ...

August 8, 2025

Web Exclusives

Freakier Friday: Light Iron colorist Corinne Bogdanowicz creates a throwback look for this Disney sequel
Walt Disney Pictures' Freakier Friday is the sequel to the 2003 comedy starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Both returned to reprise their roles as Tess (Curtis) and Anna Coleman (Lohan), with ...

August 26, 2025
The Fantastic Four: First Steps: Inside Digital Domain's VFX work on nearly 400 shots
Digital Domain (https://digitaldomain.com) made significant contributions to the Marvel Studios film The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Under the leadership of VFX supervisor Jan Philip Cramer, Digital ...

August 26, 2025
Careers: Law & Order composer Arda Ren
Arda Ren is a Turkish composer whose credits include the popular crime dramas Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU. In addition to writing music on both series across multiple seasons, he's also c ...

August 18, 2025
Director's Chair: Bing Liu - Preparation for the Next Life
Director Bing Liu is a rising star in indie cinema. The China-born, Midwest-raised filmmaker is best known for directing Minding the Gap, which was nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the 2019 A ...

August 21, 2025

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